Winter Trip 2011. 1st Day: Cardiff Central & Cardiff Castle

Peace Be Upon You...


Cardiff was my first stop in the winter strip this year 2011.  I started the journey very early in the morning as the train from Plymouth station leaves at 5.25am off to Bristol Temple Meads station for a change before straight away arriving at Cardiff station. Upon arriving in Cardiff, my first stop was to roam around Cardiff City Center looking for some interesting tourist attractions. I stop at Cardiff Central Square where the train drop us. It is a place where it allocates shop lots and many other business places.

Cardiff Central Square is right in front of Cardiff Central train station.

Cardiff City Center

There are lots of decorative light at Cardiff Central but u won't see the beauty until night arrives

My next stop is Cardiff Castle. Entrance fee to get into the castle is at 9.50 pound with students discount in hand, it is a common price to enter any other places in the UK. The castle is huge but yet to beat the size of Warwick castle that i visited on the third day. The castle is amazing with beautiful view even though it is winter now. The bad thing about visiting places in winter is that u can't see flowers blooming or green lush trees or climbers anymore and the day got shorter, sunlight get damper and obviously it is colder and makes u feel hungry easily too. These are few pictures that i captured around the castle:

The castle located at the center of the hustle and bustle of the city itself, so it is very easy to spot it even from afar. So don't worry coz u will eventually found the grand entrance of the castle near the main road.  U will spot that every road signs or post will have Welsh translation as Cardiff is a city in Wales so everything which is in English will be translated into Welsh and weirdly only 2 percent of 2 million populations in Wales still speaks Welsh. 

This is the entrance, right in front of the main road

The good I found about the castle management is that they provide a good amount of space for visitors to leave their luggage before heading to exploring the castle. Maybe they don't want us to be knocking every valuable items in the castle with our big and bulky bags i guess? heheh

Walking around those big compound of the castle sure be tiring in this kinda weather coz its cold and u easily got hungry.

There are lots of interesting rooms and sections to explore in the castle itself. I managed to visit all the places in the castle and the above picture is the library in the castle. Tersangat lah cantik perpustakaan istana dan banyak buku yang semuanya saya tak tahu apa ke bende. Detailing I see as something that they pay extra attention as kesemua tempat @ bilik yg saya masuk penuh dengan dinding yang berbunga dan siling yang penuh ukiran dan lukisan yang cantik sekali.

This is part of the castle dari sudut pandangan bertentangan dengan padang di hadapan istana. Sangat luas dan cantik sekali. 

Siling dan chandeliar mewah yang mengasyikkan

Detailings on every glass window..penuh dgn pelbagai lukisan berbeza

Kesimpulannya, the visit to Cardiff Castle was awesome and i can say worth paying the the ticket. But one thing that dissappoints us, the Asian is that some places in the castle we could not take picture of to protect the copyright of the castle i guess but it is okay as there are various other beautiful rooms and sections that u can snap picture of.

Boxing Day in Plymouth

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Hari ni merupakan hari bertumbuk sedunia..26th December 2011. It was awesome for me as I got the opportunity menabur duit d kampung Plymouth tempat tinggal saya. Tahun lepas pon awesome jugak tp agak jauh dr rumah so agak keletihan dan agak tergesa-gesa,, so nikmat nak membazir uwang tu kurang sikit. Anyway experience boxing in Ingolstadt and Bayern Munchen was great and at par to Plymouth itself. My expectation for boxing in Plymouth was high really but it didn't really meet my wild imagination hehhe. According to my friends fromYork and Nottingham, the shop in their places usually opens at a very early hours like 6am but here they only opens at 9am so we would have more time sleeping in the morning instead of queuing at the store's entrance. Lucky for me who is really not an early bird. I started my boxing at 15 to ten bringing my other guests from Notts to explore Plymouth as well as most of them are first timer in Plymouth. I was really shocked as it was already 10am and the major shopping places in Plymouth sangatlah lengang dan boleh merewang kesana-sini dgn senang hati. Apalagi saya dan seorang lg kawan saya sebagai host bg region Plymouth bawak diorg berkejar ke Drake Circus the only shopping complex under one roof in the city. One by one shops we entered and exit with the hope utk menyambar barang2 yg benar2 murah. Biasalah peniaga mesti byk strateginya kan..ade setengah2 kedai yg sales nye sgtlah awesome sampai terbeliak biji mata kitorang tak tau nk pilih yg mane and some shop who don't have any sales word in their store..which store yg kitorang masuk tu yg xde sales terus cabut cepat2 hehehe..Last2 sekali mmg betullah jadi shop till you drop.. mmg betul drop dgn brg2 yg entah hape2 tujuan belinya and mostly baju2 yg I myself don't know when and where to wear it anyway.. Biasalah nafsu, bila tgk org beli baju bnyk2 kite pon nk jgk. In the end my poket dah rabak and I am really worry rigth now as next week I'll be spending a week in Spain and Portugal..mana nak cekau duit tu huhuh..Today I didn't take any picture mainly coz terlalu masyuk membuang duit kat kedai baju T__T

End Of Autumn Term

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Miniature apple that caught my heart <3

I'll start writing today with the magical word 'Yeaaayyy'. My schooling for this term is over... starting tomorrow... anyway. Yes tomorrow will be the last class i attend for this term. Luckily the class will only take two hours of my precious life but it will take me sweats to stay awake in the class. What do you expect from Romantic and Gothic session isn't it? hehhe.. Pity Paul, he is a lecturer who is extremely enthusiastic in his lecture and seminar but nonetheless, not even 2 percent of the class pay attention to him anyway..sighh. Not only me who's English usage as second language feel bored to death but the locals even worse. They are the one who yawns like hell..hehehe (^_^) OK just wrap up bout the class thing and start sweatin' on what to fill the holiday with. Basically i've already have plans sealed for this winter break. A week of roaming in the UK, particularly England and Wales and i'll take a 10 days break then continue with another week in Spain and Portugal..weeehoooo. Can't wait for education thing to finish then I can have a bliss free time. Unfortunately according to forecast, there will not be white Christmas this year as snow will only likely to fall after 25th of december...nevermind i'm not the one celebrating Christmas anyway hehe.. But seriously can't wait for the snow to fall this time around. It will definitely be a wonderful time to play canon ball snow during holiday..wish to meet snow in Birmingham or maybe Cardiff..bye then. I will write a review on my holiday when i'm back ...Peace be Upon You

Dementia

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Wednesday is a free day for me as no lectures what so ever..n Tuesday too. Basically I only got 3 days with classes and the rest are holidays yoohoo. Nothing much happening today except for cleaning the room,vacuuming carpet slps sezaman tidak d vacuum dan sbgnya. Basically the weather has been cold quite lately and i really think that its already winter. Frankly i don't have any idea when the season starts to change as the only thing i feel is the change of temperature and thats all. The exact date when autumn turn to winter nobody knows..hmmm. The north side of England has been snowing and its common to receive late snow in Devon as it is located near the sea and really is southwest of England it is.
Turning back to the title today, i've been really worried about myself lately. I experienced quite a worrisome disorder on forgetting things nowadays and just yesterday, I went to a halal butchery to buy some fresh chicken stock and accidentally left my shopping bag loads with food at the shop. Its just that i couldn't really remember what was i thinking at that time. Thank god the moment i was waiting for  the bus before heading home then i realised something just felt wrong then i remembered that i went in the store with a shopping bag but went out without one...
I am really worried right now.. that incident was not the only occurrence that happens lately but many more. I also realised that it is really hard these days to remember names...its okay with faces but not names. When I first arrived in the house, there are 4 new housemates, 3 locals and one Syrian girl and as i said i never really remember their names until its the 2nd month we stayed together. For the Syrian girl i only managed to remember her name on the last 2 days she stayed in the house before she left the house to be closer with her friend. Thats how bad i am. And another thing that bothers me a lot now is that i have difficulty with my utterance. Whenever its time for me to speaks i kinda forgot what to say and what even worse is i actually forgot some words not only in English which is my second language but also in Bahasa Malaysia. I lost for terms and sometimes when i have a very comfortable chat with my friends in Kelantanese  dialec (my favourite language of all as i was born with it), i stutter in the middle of the chat not knowing what to say next. This really drives me up the wall. Paling menyedihkan bila setiap kali baca doa, doa yg sy memang dah hafal sgt, boleh pulak start dgn doa lain pastu disudahkan dgn doa lain...sungguh la sedih. Mungkin jgk fikiran sy melayang tp entahlah. I am really afraid if I ever have dementia in such a young age..but well nobody knows that right. I've been watching this drama about a 30 years old woman having alzheimer at such a young age and it is such a sad drama...maybe i am infecting the drama virus to my mind with the story line a bit haaha. Tapi sy sgt lah risau. Mungkin sbb dah lama sgt saya x gunakan otak saya ni berfikir perkara yg serious, i mean more to educational purpose rather than thinking of something useless like tengok drama, dengar lagu pelbagia acara yg x pakai otak sgt. Memang x guna otaklah. Saya ni bukan plk org yg suka fikir byk penat2 kan otak. I think it may affect my brain cell. Bak kata wardina dlm iklan susu dumex tu, neutron neutron x bersambung kot, sbb itulah dah jd susah nak mengingat dan senang lupa sesuatu..huhuhu. 

Happy Things Do Come Unexpected..

Peace be Upon You..

Peaceful place is somewhere I wish I could reside..but this is a hospital FYI heehe

Bunyi tajuknya macam benda besar aje yg telah berlaku kan?? but nahhh...x de mende pon sbnrnye. Just that when I arrived at class just now not many in the class and theres no Malaysian to be seen so I was gelabah cos theres only me with 2 other English, texted a friend and the class cancelled...Yeayyy.. got back home and start typing this thing instead of finishing assignment due tomorrow. Hmm..Happy is one thing but sorrow in a sense that midnight oil still be burning tonight. I am a person who is not a perfectionist cos i'm lazy to hell but selagi the things x siap i couldn't sleep well. Like this assignment thing everytime the due date is tomorrow, so today i might not be sleeping at all..haishh penat penat. Luckily this time I got to work myself up the wall to start working a little earlier so that i'm not sweating from head to toe the day before the due hehhee. I think this is the first time i was so much engrossed in the topic i write and it is actually a fun thing u know. Reading is fun if you do it right for the right reason and most definitely not by forced. I'll talk about the topic later and it seems that autumn term is flying by a little fast than i expected. Today is already the 1st of December but i'm not sure if its already winter or still autumn but i can really feel the temperature dropping down recently. Winter is great for its snow and Christmas and all but one thing i'm not in favor of is the cold weather..oohh even if you just hang your hands of your coat, the chill really kills your guts..In another extend can't wait to feel the 2nd snow but yeahh thats the point right.. Lovely things do come in a quite painful manner like this one. Since winter is a term where we got quite numbers of holidays off due to Christmas celebration so my friends and i had decided to go on trips to both snowy places and not so snowy holiday destination..locally and internationally..hmmm i'll stop now for this time cos gotta finish job soon .. gotta finish typing this next time (^_^)